Broadway at the Cabaret - Top 5 Cabaret Picks for October 27-November 2 Featuring Jeremy Jordan, Susan Blackwell, Hunter Bell, and More!
By: Louisa Brady Oct. 26, 2014
Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars! Well after Broadway orchestra's begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven- o'clock numbers, the party continues at various cabaret venues throughout New York City. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you some cabaret highlights for this week as picked by our theatre editors, including: Don't Speak Benefit, Jeremy Jordan: Breaking Character, Julia Mattison is Ruby Manger, Into Sweeney Todd's Woods, and Let Me Try That Again: Take 2.
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Don't Speak Benefit
Where: The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street)
When: October 26 at 9:30 PM
Tickets: $25-115 at http://metropolitanroom.com/event.cfm?id=164797&cart&buy
SWIFTLY TILTING THEATRE PROJECT, INC. is independently donating its time, talent, and resources to produce this show. All Proceeds will Benefit The Center for Reproductive Rights. Becca Kidwell, Artistic Director Swiftly Tilting Theatre Project, Inc. Featuring*: Sean Harkness (Windham Hill Records [Sony/RCA/BMG]) , Samantha Owen (Forbidden Broadway), Jessica Phillips (Leap of Faith, Law & Order, SVU), Erick Pinnick (A Christmas Carol, The Tin Pan Alley Rag), T. Oliver Reid (After Midnight, Mary Poppins). And* Sarah Drake, Morgan Frazer, Becca Kidwell, Anna Kirkland, Clare Mione, Rebecca Elliott, Molly Maynard, Parker Scott. More to be announced soon! Musical Director: Bruce Barnes.
Celebrated and up-and-coming artists share favorite stage and pop songs speaking of women's strength and their freedom to participate equally in society, particularly in matters that directly affect their well-being.
*All performers subject to availability
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Jeremy Jordan: Breaking Character
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: October 27 at 7:00 PM (October 27th-November 13th)
Tickets: $55-100 at http://54below.com/artist/jeremy-jordan/
Jeremy Jordan, star of Broadway, film, and television makes his 54 Below and New York City solo concert debut. Recounting iconic and deciding moments from his budding career, Jeremy performs the songs that have defined his swift rise to stardom. Selections include music from Broadway's Newsies, NBC's Smash, and his upcoming film The Last 5 Years, along with many of his own personal favorites. Often more comfortable on stage as a character than himself, this bright young artist steps into the solo spotlight for the very first time to tell us a bit of his own fascinating story.
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Julia Mattison is Ruby Manger
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: October 27 at 9:30 PM
Tickets: $25-55 at http://54below.com/artist/julia-mattison-is-ruby-manger/
Join fictional Broadway diva Ruby Manger as she makes her long-awaited return to the New York stage! Julia Mattison stars as Ms. Manger, an enigmatic Broadway icon, famous for such roles as Trudy the Blind Ghost in I See You, Not Really, But You Know What I Mean (Tony Award winner, Best Musical and Best Actress) and as The Coroner in Whoa Nelly, That's a Lot of Blood (Drama Desk Award winner, Best Set Design).
Through a whirlwind of songs, stories and Broadway's special guests, Ruby will revisit her greatest career highlights and lowlights, from winning her first Tony Award, to her not-so-secret love affairs, to her recent recovery from a terrifying addiction to bagels. Ms. Manger is back from rehab, better than ever, and ready to reclaim her place as Broadway's shining Ruby with a thrilling and revealing evening at Broadway's Supper Club!
With: Andrew Kober as Jean Dijon, Taylor Trensch as Allen Quiche Lorraine, Noel Carey as Randy Newman, and more Special Guests to be announced!
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Into Sweeney Todd's Woods
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: October 31 at 9:30 PM
Tickets: $30-65 at http://54below.com/artist/into-sweeney-todds-woods/
Back for a second, smash year!! Well Hello, Little Girl... There are Giants in the Sky at 54 Below when host Phil Geoffrey Bond (Sondheim Unplugged) and some of Broadway and cabaret's spookiest talents (along with a ghoulish trio of Sondheimhood's creepiest musicians) collide for a night celebrating the music of these two landmark musicals. God, That's Good! The trees rustle, a wolf howls, something's eerie in the night air: it's The Last Midnight. The perfect way to end your Halloween celebrations - or perhaps start them! City on Fire! ... He shaved the necks of gentlemen who never thereafter...
Special Guest: Sarah Rice (Sweeney Todd's original Johanna)
Featuring: Scott Coulter, Timothy John Smith, Harris Doran, Marquee Five, Rob Maitner, Kelli Rabke. T. Oliver Reid, Julie Reyburn, Lucia Spina, and Jessica Vosk.
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Let Me Try That Again: Take 2
Where: 54 Below (254 W 54th Street)
When: November 2 at 10:30 PM
Tickets: $25-200 at http://54below.com/artist/let-me-try-that-again-take-2/
On Sunday, November 2nd at 54 Below, Hunter Bell ([title of show], Grinch) and Susan Blackwell ([title of show], "Side By Side by Susan Blackwell") host an evening of fabulous performers sharing video of their most embarrassing moments onstage and then redeeming themselves by recreating that moment. Tony Award-winner Billy Crudup (No Man's Land, Waiting for Godot, The Coast of Utopia), Rose Hemingway (How to Succeed...), Taran Killam ("Saturday Night Live," 12 Years a Slave), Kelli O'Hara (The Bridges of Madison County, Nice Work, South Pacific), Ben Platt (The Book of Mormon, "Pitch Perfect"), Steve Pasquale (The Bridges of Madison County, Reasons to be Pretty, "Rescue Me"), Krysta Rodriguez (First Date, The Addams Family, "Smash"), and more to be announced. Mary-Mitchell Campbell (Big Fish, The Addams Family) will serve as the music director.
At the end of the evening, the audience will vote on the star performer who most redeemed themselves through their efforts that night. Bell and Blackwell were the winners of the event last year, which Pasquale developed with his peers in mind.
"This benefit is to remind us all that we all have failed. And failed miserably; in my case in particular," says Pasquale. "But it's also to remind us about persistence, and focus, and moving forward. And about recognizing how important it is to not take ourselves too seriously. It will be a crazy fun night."
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